ok, the interview to get through to the training for International Bio Olympiad didn't go very good... haha, but then what was i expecting being so candid. well, so it started off with, do u know us... i stupidly said yes, thinking tt recognizing a familiar face was enough... but nope... what a great start... :)

haha, then it drifted on to asking me abt my experience during SBO... and apparently, i thought tt i had done the worst in ecology and did ok in cell bio... wrong... oops, so they proved tt i was wrong... haha... k then, came the part about whether i expected a medal and if i was disappointed w my results. i said yes to both, so they asked what went wrong... so i told them the truth, which was tt i had no time to prepare for SBO... then they were questioning my motivation. then they asked me for my hobbies, and i said tennis and tv... hurhur, then they said tt, tt my explain y i didn't get a gold... ok...

then came SMP and SRP... i explained my SRP just fine... but SMP... well, i made a mistake when talking about a hypothesis... so i was grilled by the president of SBO... yes, i made a mistake, i know a hypothesis is not a question.. i'm sorry i made a mistake there... now i know tt a hypothesis is a deduction based on some logic tt u wanna test and see if its consistent with some data.

so they asked me abt my sec sch, and primary sch... and they guessed i was a gepper since i was from tao nan, and there were 3 more such pple here. hmmm... then one of the professors proclaimed tt geppers had low eq, based solely on his one experience, which he relayed to us, much to the amusement to the other pple... and of course the president of the SBO had to add in, "What arrogance these pple..." haha... hmmm...

in a form we had to submit b4 going for the interview, in response to a qn asking if i had any particular interest in science or biology, i said none, just in general. then, when asked what field i'd like to go into in the future, i said, either chem or bio... so it was a really broad kind of answer... and tt does not settle well with pple...

last part of the interview came... they asked, so what will u do to ensure u'll get selected to represent singapore if u got through to the training. hmmm, i said i'd try harder, and give my best. and stopped. so the professor added, u should be more focused. looking at yr answers to the questions, we can tell u are not very focused... u can't decide what field to settle in, and u have no particular interest in science. then he asked if those competitions i won in science were general science competitions, so i said, yes... then he looked at my SBO scores, and said, yeah, even yr scores are very general, u scored the same every section of the paper, plus minus one... and the president chirpped, at least tt is some form of consistency. so tt was it... think i'm screwed... haha

PS: Katie Webber and Fantasia were so good yesterday! :)